Article by
Barbados Today

Published on
November 10, 2015

A 14-year-old schoolgirl was due to appear in court here today to answer a charge of wounding a male student.
The teenager, who attends a secondary school in the north of the island, was arrested and charged with stabbing the young man who attends the same school in his upper back. The incident occurred yesterday on a bus on the Ronald Mapp Highway in the area of Redman’s Village, St Thomas around 4:45 p.m.
The male teenager was taken to the QEH by ambulance where he was treated and discharged.
He was stabbed with an instrument.

This is another reason phones should replace school supplies and textbooks. I hear she used a two pointed compass. If it was a phone it would’ve been her prize possession and would not do anything harmful with it. Nowadays, children would find anything to harm one another. But they wouldn’t use their phone to harm someone though and there’s my point.

This is another reason phones should replace school supplies and textbooks. I hear she used a two pointed compass. If it was a phone it would’ve been her prize possession and would not do anything harmful with it. Nowadays, children would find anything to harm one another. But they wouldn’t use their phone to harm someone though and there’s my point.

This happens because we have adopted a system that caters to such behavior all in the name of progress. The offender is afforded a ‘fair’ trial with no consideration for the victim’s rights. Persons must pay for their wrong doing one way or the other. Perhaps we should seek monetary compensation civily since there seems to be no hope of justice.

This happens because we have adopted a system that caters to such behavior all in the name of progress. The offender is afforded a ‘fair’ trial with no consideration for the victim’s rights. Persons must pay for their wrong doing one way or the other. Perhaps we should seek monetary compensation civily since there seems to be no hope of justice.